It would be a common place to refer to well-known terms such as inductive and deductive methods in the logic of scientific discoveries. (See more under inductive reasoning.) Or, we could cite the three words preferred in dialectical materialism as a direction of the logical development. First comes a thesis which is attacked by an antithesis. The fight of the two regularly ends with a synthesis, unless if one of the camps has not enough power and representation in the media, therefore remains opressed for a long time.
New ideas and constructive theories sometimes remain neglected or ignored, simply because there is no such science yet. Certain interdisciplinary sciences do not belong to any other, clearly defined, discipline. For example, it is practically wasted time to try to find a scholarly forum that is simultaneously proficient in astronomy, ancient history and Biblical archaeology as an interdisciplinary science. There is no such combined science, and most scholars are reluctant to enter into foreign disciplines outside their fields. The Middle Ages was more favourable for the existence of polyhistors. Nowadays all sciences are somewhat over-specialized and their strictly limited disciplines are not interconnected properly. This unfortunate fact is a factor against the quick progress of the sciences and the further development of human logic. Another negative factor is the immense forces of inertia due to the large number of scientist or scholars. One single person's logical theories are deemed to stay ignored if hundreds of thousands of mainstream scholars are reluctant to re-examine their methods, logic, or their basic assumptions. It is needless to say that, as any other fields of life, these issues can be influenced by racial, political and financial powers and decisions in any country. A good example for these antagonistic controversies is the never ending debate between the Darwinism and Creationism.
Scholars or researchers representing different faiths usually use their own logic and ideological assumptions, in order to support their own theories. Of course, these factors hardly apply in exact sciences but make considerable differences in the outcome in the social sciences.
The following words are linked with these issues: scholarly, unscholarly, scientific, unscientific, scientific theories and conflicting theories
